Review of statistical methods for analysing healthcare resources and costs.

Journal article

We review statistical methods for analysing healthcare resource use and costs, their ability to address skewness, excess zeros, multimodality and heavy right tails, and their ease for general use. We aim to provide guidance on analysing resource use and costs focusing on randomised trials, although methods often have wider applicability. Twelve broad categories of methods were identified: (I) methods based on the normal distribution, (II) methods following transformation of data, (III) single...

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Authors: Mihaylova, B; Briggs, A; O'Hagan, A; Thompson, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Health economics
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 897-916
• Publication date: 2011-08-01
• DOI: 10.1002/hec.1653
• EISSN: 1099-1050
• ISSN: 1057-9230
• Language: English
• Keywords: Data Interpretation, Statistical; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Markov Chains; Health Care Costs; Linear Models; Health Resources